Week 3 - What does it mean to live in a digital society?
Course Objectives:
1. Students will demonstrate their conceptual understanding of the use of technology in a global education.
2. Students will demonstrate methods of utilizing and promoting digital tools for collaboration and communication with students, parents, peers and community members and the effective use of digital tools and resources.
3. Students will demonstrate an understanding of safe, ethical, legal, and moral practices related to digital information and technology.
Read Chapter 7 Before attending class - { Making a Contribution - Opener #6 - Learner Participation in Open Information Communities }
1. Finish watching the Dr. Bonk video 2. Jigsaw Chapter 7 of the book in some collaborative way - post to The World is Open page 3. Digital Citizenship Discussion 4. Digital Tools Exercise 5. Discussion about Week 4
Digital Citizenship is a broad topic with many different branches, yet it is part of the NETS standards that we include it in our curriculum. How can we ensure we are touching on all of the facets of digital citizenship prior to introducing a digital technology project in the classroom? What makes a good digital citizen?
Why is intellectual property and creative rights an important topic for students?
Digital Tools Exercises:
Each week you will choose from the bag a digital tool to work on for 45 minutes. Create a short test example to use in your presentation. You will post your weekly digital tool to the wiki along with resources and review.
You will then present your tool to the class using the following guidelines:
Does it need an email account to log in
Ease of use
How would you use it in the classroom
Are there any resources you could find to help support the tool
Could this tool be used as a global collaborative tool
Course Objectives:
1. Students will demonstrate their conceptual understanding of the use of technology in a global education.
2. Students will demonstrate methods of utilizing and promoting digital tools for collaboration and communication with students, parents, peers and community members and the effective use of digital tools and resources.
3. Students will demonstrate an understanding of safe, ethical, legal, and moral practices related to digital information and technology.
Read Chapter 7 Before attending class - { Making a Contribution - Opener #6 - Learner Participation in Open Information Communities }
1. Finish watching the Dr. Bonk video
2. Jigsaw Chapter 7 of the book in some collaborative way - post to The World is Open page
3. Digital Citizenship Discussion
4. Digital Tools Exercise
5. Discussion about Week 4
Resources for week 3
Commoncraft Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking Tutorial
Social Bookmarking for Teachers - Why it is important
Diigo for teachers - groups of students
Let's fight it together
Commonsense Media
Digital Dossier
Digital Citizenship
Why Teachers need Digital Citizenship
Wikimedia
YackPack - Gone!
Digital Citizenship Information
Blog Questions for Week 3:
Digital Citizenship is a broad topic with many different branches, yet it is part of the NETS standards that we include it in our curriculum. How can we ensure we are touching on all of the facets of digital citizenship prior to introducing a digital technology project in the classroom? What makes a good digital citizen?
Why is intellectual property and creative rights an important topic for students?
Digital Tools Exercises:
Each week you will choose from the bag a digital tool to work on for 45 minutes.
Create a short test example to use in your presentation.
You will post your weekly digital tool to the wiki along with resources and review.
You will then present your tool to the class using the following guidelines: